Description | Pen-and-ink drawings of [left to right, top to bottom]: two badgers looking at items strewned around the area; a badger with a scarf and a stick standing in a stone archway with another badger looking on from the background; two badgers entering a door to the right of a stairway, with a sign saying "Smugler Hulen" [possibly Danish for "Smugglers Cave", which appears in the English published version]; and two badgers looking around a mostly empty room. The following captions are written in pencil in Shepard's handwriting [slashes denote line or section breaks]: "Ben + Brock/We shall have to apply to the council for a new house/Hullo! This looks like the way out from that secret passage/It's empty and seems to have escaped the damage/Look! Ben's catapult! I do hope the boy got away all right!". There are a variety of [printers' instructions?] in the margins, some partly obscured by the mount. |